A staff in the Department of Animal Production and Health, College of Animal Science and Livestock Production (COLANIM), Mr. Joshua Odutayo, has won the Association of African Universities’ 2016 edition of Small Grants for Theses and Dissertations Programme to the tune of $3,500.

Mr. Odutayo, who had an unprecedented 4.90 Grade Point Average in the University, to become the best graduating student in the 2012/2013 Academic Session, won the grant for his Ph.D. programme with a proposal titled, “Influence of Supplemental Vitamins and Periods of Administration on Laying Performance, Haematological Parameter and Antibody Titre of Egg Type Chickens Vaccinated against Newcastle Disease”.
Meanwhile, Mr. Odutayo has also defended his Master of Agriculture Dissertation, to become the overall best, under the poultry discipline in the 2015 Graduate Animal Scientists (GAS) Examination, conducted by the Nigerian Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), the regulatory agency for the training and practice of animal science in Nigeria.